Description
Title: Boulder
Author: BALTASAR EVA
Illustrator: SANCHES JULIA (TR)
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/12/2022
Imprint: AND OTHER STORIES
Price: $28.00
Publishing status: Active
Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize*The grim and lovely follow-up to Eva Baltasar acclaimed Permafrost explores the darker sides of love and motherhood for two women determined to live as they like. Working as a cook on a merchant ship, a woman comes to know and love Samsa, a woman who gives her the nickname;. When Samsa gets a job in Reykjavik and the couple decides to move there together, Samsa decides that she wants to have a child. She is already forty and can t bear to let the opportunity pass her by. Boulder is less enthused, but doesn t know how to say no and so finds herself dragged along on a journey that feels as thankless as it is alien.With motherhood changing Samsa into a stranger, Boulder must decide where her priorities lie, and whether her yearning for freedom can truly trump her yearning for love. Once again, Eva Baltasar demonstrates her preeminence as a chronicler of queer voices navigating a hostile world and in prose as brittle and beautiful as an ancient saga.
ISBN: 9781913505387
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm